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On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 5:55 PM Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:43:44 +0100 > Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > > > It's gone through a 9 year deprecation cycle, with a mandatory > > experimental warning that you have to explicitly disable. > > So signatures were deprecated too? "Experimental" doesn't mean > deprecated. If we want smartmatch to be deprecated, then we should > deprecate it. We should have done that a long time ago, instead of > pretending that signatures/try/isa/whatever have the same status as > smartmatch. > > Smartmatch was made "experimental" retroactively and for a large portion > of our users the warnings started appearing as late as 10 years after it > was introduced! > > RHEL6: released in 2010, supported until 2020: perl 5.10 (no warnings) > RHEL7: released in 2014, supported until 2024: perl 5.16 (no warnings) > RHEL8: released in 2019, supported until 2029: perl 5.26 (warns) > Tomasz++ for using real-world deployed Perl versions for arguments! *Imho* not adding/changing/removing something for backward compatibility with Perl versions that are included in no longer supported Dist versions is a waste of time and effort. > Not to mention that the "experimental" warning doesn't even attempt to > inform the user what it means: > > > perl -E '$z ~~ $b' > Smartmatch is experimental at -e line 1. > > Our documentation isn't much better. The meaning of "experimental" is > hidden deep in perlpolicy. There is no *loud and clear* warning in e.g. > the smartmatch section of perlop. > Experimental means 'on the way in' to me, deprecated 'on the way out'. Those should be different warning (categories). Aren't they?Thread Previous | Thread Next